This week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene: Lucene 5.1.0 RC2 vote has passed

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More love for span queries, adding two-phased support for SpanPositionCheckQuery, <code>SpanPositionRangeQuery, SpanPayloadCheckQuery, <code>SpanNearPayloadCheckQuery and SpanFirstQuery. <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6394" target="_blank"><code>SpanNotQuery is also in progress.